A court in Cambodia on Thursday sentenced the country's former ambassador to South Korea to five years in prison on charges of corruption and abuse of power.http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/12/01/world/asia/ap-as-cambodia-corruption.html?_r=0

Brazilian authorities are investigating thousands of reports of fraud and criminal interference in the country’s municipal elections, including one case in which the country’s most notorious prison gang allegedly funded…

The government has suspended the governor of Bangkok, the country's most senior elected official, on Thursday while the country's attorney general investigates allegations of corruption and misuse of city funds…

Romanian prosecutors have questioned Sergiu Lucinschi, ex-Moldovan President’s son over corruption. The officers also searched his house. In 2014-2015, Romanian intelligence initiated investigations against Lucinschi, who is also a business man who has acquired Romanian citizenship. Reports show that he was suspected of blackmail, influence peddling and unlawfully demanding 4 million lei ($990,000). This is one of the high profile cases pursued by Romanian authorities I the recent past http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/mar/30/prosecutors-probe-moldova-ex-presidents-son-for/

Prosecutors in Romania say Finance Minister Valcov was found with illegal cash and gold bars. Valcov is the highest ranking politician in Romania to face corruption charges. He served as mayor, before serving as senator and finance minister. Prosecutors launched an investigation into the case accusing him of favoring a firm for a public works contract in exchange for about 2 million Euros (2 million pounds) while in his former post as mayor of the city of Slatina. His fate awaits Parliament’s approval which will determine whether the prosecutors will be granted an arrest warrant to arrest Valcov,

Prosecutors in Cuba are seeking long jail terms for egg scandal convicts.If granted, the convicts will serve up to 20 years in prison for conspiring to steal millions of eggs for sale on the black market. About 19 suspects, some of them executives, accountants, and workers of the state-run egg distribution company in Havana will be facing trial in a case, where 8 million eggs were diverted to the black market costing the company $356,000.http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cuba-seeks-long-prison-terms-egg-corruption-case-29619417